UPDATED Jan. 29, 10:08 a.m.: A rep for Bill Cosby has responded to reports of the comedian admitting to getting prescribed quaaludes to drug women.
In a statement shared with The Breakfast Club’s Loren Lorosa on Thursday (Jan. 29), a rep for the comedian is quoted as calling the reporting “a distortion,” further arguing that use of quaaludes, specifically, was prevalent in the 1970s.
“Not once has Bill Cosby admitted to involuntarily incapacitating anyone,” the rep said. “Quaaludes were the party drug of the 70s. There were literal billboards that advertised the drug; they were consumed like candy. It will be for a jury to decide whether the plaintiff’s story that she took a quaalude believing it was aspirin is credible.”
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Bill Cosby has been hit with more allegations of drugging and raping women five years after he served time for aggravated indecent assault.
According to TMZ, the disgraced comedian and actor, 88, admitted under oath that he was prescribed quaaludes seven times with the intention of giving them to women and sexually assaulting them.
The admission was given in a lawsuit filed by one of Cosby's accusers, Donna Motsinger, according to the report.
The Cosby Show star was reportedly prescribed the sedative drug by a gynecologist, Dr. Leroy Amar, while at a poker game hosted at Cosby's home before 1972. Amar's medical license was revoked in 1979.
In her lawsuit, Montsinger alleges that Cosby drugged and raped her when she was a waitress at Trident, a former restaurant in Sausalito, California.
Motsinger claims that Cosby gave her a pill that she thought was aspirin, and upon ingesting it, she fell in and out of consciousness. The next day, Montsinger said, she found herself wearing only her underwear in her home.
Cosby's attorney wants the lawsuit to be dismissed.
The comedian has been accused of rape by roughly 60 women, prominently in the last decade. One of the last allegations was made in August 2023, when a woman claimed that she was drugged and raped by Cosby on multiple occasions between 1987 to 1990.
According to USA Today, Cosby allegedly invited his accuser, Morganne Picard, to the set of The Cosby Show "under the pretense" of getting her a role on the sitcom. Picard claimed that while at Cosby's home on one occasion, she was given a drink, lost consciousness, and awoke naked in a hotel room with vaginal soreness.
